Thursday, June 21, 2012

Cool or a fool

The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events. He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics. The imbecile doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies.
- Bertolt Brecht

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

What is the worth of anything we do?

The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life.

- Eragon, Christopher Paolini

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Genome demystified

A very simple yet elaborate explanation of what constitute our genes. A great resource which I would never like to lose track of.

Link: http://hopes.stanford.edu/basics/dna/b0.html

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Eureka !!!

Not long I re-started my journey of philosophy and found a phrase so true, which I started feeling recently in life but was never able to articulate. It looks like the author peeked into my mind and given words to my abstruse feelings.

"shorn of scholastic vanity by the merciless friction of life"

- The Story of Philosophy, Will Durant

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Fall of Civilization

An epigraph in the movie Apocalypto turned me on to further explore Will Durant.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within

Looked into the Wikipedia entry and found that it is part of the following work by him.

The Story of Civilization (Vol 3 Caesar And Christ. Epilogue - Why Rome fell): A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

The Story of Philosophy

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

- The Story of Philosophy, Will Durant

Sunday, April 26, 2009

100 yrs of Solitude

Petra Cotes, for her part, loved him more and more as she felt his love increasing, and that was how in the ripeness of autumn she began to believe once more in the youthful superstition that poverty was the servitude of love. Both looked back then on the wild revelry, the gaudy wealth, and the unbridled fornication as an annoyance and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude.

- One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez, Gregory Rabassa (Translator)